The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1887-03-25
LETTER FROMWAsHINGTON.


WAsHIS5roS, ID. c., Mar u, 1857.
" Mr.. Editor: Ii seems tBat Com
missioner Sparks, of the Land OF
Gee, has ut last got himself in q
light place which Will ultimately
$ lead to his resignation. PractitiOm
ers before the Bureau ever since
I his accession to the Office have been
hoping that something would turn
/, up to lead him into their fields.
The latest story that he wrote to a
, personal friend in New York State,
+ saving that be would do all in his
power to defeat Clevelanl's renom
i~nation and to secure the nOmina-
ton of Gov. Hill, seems to be very
generally accepted about here as
containing a great deal OF truth. 1t
is true that the commissioner has
denied any foundation for the ru-
NOR, but still people around the
Capital, who seem to know pretty
we'll what is going on, say that there
is more fact than fiction 10 the
story. The Commissioner has also
set the pot to boiling in the Treas
ury Department. He has charged
the Assistant Comptroller with the
authorship of certain official cor.
respondence rejecting upon his ac.
ton in a land claim, pending iu his
Office, in which he says the asssis
tant official was interested, and
publicly says that the Deputy
Comptroller has no right to the pc.
sition he holds and should be re-
moved at once. Mr.. Garrison, in
defense, publishes II card, saying
that the Comptroller himself con-
Quoted the correspondence, as the
record shows. Mr.. Sparks seems
TO possess the faculty OF q~uarelliug
With all his official brothers, and
you need not he surprised any day
to hear of bis resignation.
Ever since Congress adjourned
the air has been full of rumorS Of
official misdoings, aud ruptures of
good feeling between Washington
officials. In connection with the
resignation of commissioner of
PATENTS Montgomery, he was re-
to have said, in an inter.
view with a newspaper man, that
congressman and Senators bored
The lite out OF Kim in soliciting an :
pOlntmcntS for friends, and that
they were more impOrtunate in SO /
appointments tor women q,
whom they have never met before 1
te Washington Than for any
other class of favor seekers. Mr.. $
Montgomery has, however, very q
emphatically denied ever having a
entertained snch a thought, much S
ess giving utterance 10 such sean t
tai, aud says further that his sole il
'easOn for surrendcring his honor c
IDLE office is to engage in the prac il
ice OF law again before his old b
Iractice IS completely scattered S
lnd lost. His many friends here a
lave hopes that he will receiv e the &
nomination for Congress hen the t,
line for making nominations again Il
oils around.
Another rumor without founda o
ion was 10 the effect that Sergeant b
t. Arms Canaday, of the Senate, T.
found to be short in his il
ccOunts, and that he was guilty of G
borrowing money of all bis subor. ii
mates without returning il. Tue %
is, Mr.. Cdnaday has nothing 81
do with the Disbursements of d
Money, as none passes through bis II
andS, aud so has no accounts in d,
'hich to "be Short So far as the ST
Their part of the rutnOr is concern I'll
the affable aud generous Ser S,
eant-at Arms is constantly lend ID
lg instead of borrowing money, as 9.
9 knows to his sorrow. cI
Secretary Endicolt also denies in
rat there is any unpleasautHeSS th
him aud the President, or I,
ret he has any intention of resign al
Ig. There has been some slight OF
.iSagreement between himself and ed
Ie newly appointed Surgeon Gen p.
al of the Army, General Moore, NJ
JOut changes in The office of Sur sW
ION, but even that is not of il Sc an
Gus nature, and rnder 40 circum- vi
ances would it affect the cordial Il
I'd frieHdly relation between the th,
.cretary aud President. oil.
All these rumOrs have for their tid
igin the fertile aud imaginative fro
of newsy correspondents col
IO are suffering for the want of DO
icy debates in Congress aud tue wa
rsOnal "reminiscences aud gOssi7 to
members of Congress to wrIfe har
HAL. mo
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